1 gen 1851 anni - Elizabeth Smith Miller

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Elizabeth Smith Miller is best known for designing what would become known as the Bloomer costume. She describes this as “Turkish trousers to the ankle with a skirt reaching some four inches below the knee.” She began wearing it in 1851, after working in her garden and becoming “thoroughly disgusted with the long skirt…” Many women’s rights advocates took to wearing the Bloomer costume, but they were so ridiculed that after a few years they abandoned it. The tradition was carried on for several years, however, in gymnasiums and sanitariums, including the sanitarium of Dr. James C. Jackson, in Dansville, New York, where it was spread by dress reformer Dr. Harriet N. Austin.

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